Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Collins, the Genesis-drummer-turned-pop-icon, was cited for best male pop vocal, song of the year and record of the year for "Another Day in Paradise," his single about the plight of the homeless. His multiplatinum "...But Seriously" was in the running for album of the year...
...University is giving the impression that it actually is willing to do more about affordable housing if it is given an opportunity. This, however, is hardly the case. Just in the past year, we have presented ample opportunities to the University to become involved in helping the homeless and in creating affordable housing. In April, we presented a resolution, endorsed by the Cambridge City Council and the PBH Cabinet and signed by more than 1000 Harvard-Radcliffe students calling on the University to donate one of its currently unused lots to build permanent housing for homeless families...
...last "missed opportunity" by the University was a request made by the PBH Homeless Committee in October to provide a space for a nightly evening meal program and drop-in center in Harvard Square. Initially, we were told that there was a chance that we could get a space in one of the currently unused athletic facilities. But that was the last thing we heard on that matter, and a space for a Sunday night meal program, which was to be our top priority, was found elsewhere in St. James/Porter Square...
Steve the Tramp is also a child's toy. The 5-in. figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop...
...like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms of navigation that often get them lost. The earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of disintegration -- the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary scale...